Lunch at the Five and Ten: The Greensboro Sit-ins: a Contemporary HistoryA detailed account of the sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. |
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Page 12
... sit - in when Jackie Robinson , catching a plane out of the city , refused to go to the Negro waiting room and continued sitting in the white section of the terminal . But these protests had stopped where they started , and throughout ...
... sit - in when Jackie Robinson , catching a plane out of the city , refused to go to the Negro waiting room and continued sitting in the white section of the terminal . But these protests had stopped where they started , and throughout ...
Page 79
... sit - ins . The most common form of expression was a letter to the editor , and at one point the volume of mail ... sitting alongside of a filthy dirty , disheveled duck tailed , loud mouthed white rowdy who was served promptly even ...
... sit - ins . The most common form of expression was a letter to the editor , and at one point the volume of mail ... sitting alongside of a filthy dirty , disheveled duck tailed , loud mouthed white rowdy who was served promptly even ...
Page 102
... sit - ins to be overlooked was also part of its ap- peal : this movement had no charismatic leader and needed none ; sitting in was something almost any group of Negroes could do with little planning . It was a movement primarily of the ...
... sit - ins to be overlooked was also part of its ap- peal : this movement had no charismatic leader and needed none ; sitting in was something almost any group of Negroes could do with little planning . It was a movement primarily of the ...
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